Lord Carey’s tribute to Bishop Michael Nazir Ali

September 12th, 2009

At the end of a moving service in a packed cathedral at Rochester, Bishop Michael Nazir Ali, surrounded by his wife and two sons laid the Episcopal Staff of Rochester Diocese on the high altar and prayed: "Trusting in the loving promises of God the Father, the grace of Jesus Christ and the power and fellowship of the Holy Spirit, I lay down my episcopal staff, sign of the Bishop’s oversight and care of his diocese. Into your hands O Lord I commend my future in faith and hope and the love of Jesus Christ".

It was an exemplary display of the voluntary laying down of power, ten years before the required age for the retirement of bishops, to enter on a new phase of ministry. the rest at Anglican Mainstream